"their own bristle boards. A few years after signing a deal with the fledgling British Darts Organisation's (BDO) founder Olly Croft in 1973 which made H.A. Kicks dartboards the official boards of the organisation, Kicks changed the name of the company to Winmau. The new name came from the first three letters of Kicks' wife's first names, Winifred Maud. Harry Kicks senior died in 1984, leaving his five sons to run the company. In the late 1980s, the popularity of darts as a televised sport began to wane, which had a knock-on effect for Winmau, which began to struggle financially."
"prove popular, and within a year Nodor was making elm dart boards. By the mid-1930s, however, Nodor had found success with the launch of their patented bristle dartboard. As soon as Nodor's patent has expired, Winmau began to produce bristle boards, and an intense rivalry between the two companies began. Each company made several bids to acquire the other, before Nodor finally completed a takeover of Winmau in 2002. Nodor continues to manufacture darts equipment using both brand names. The Winmau brand has maintained its close links with the BDO, both as title sponsor for the Winmau World Masters and"
"In 1989, a compulsory purchase order forced Winmau to move to new premises, and the company relocated to Haverhill in Suffolk. In 1993, Ron Kurtz, the owner of Accudart, Inc., Winmau's distributor in the United States, responded to a request for assistance from Kicks' sons. Kurtz became the majority shareholder, and in just two years had turned Winmau's fortunes around by bringing in his own people to run the business. Nodor was started in 1919 by chemist Ted Leggatt as a manufacturer of modelling clay. In 1923, Leggatt produced his first dartboard which was made from clay. It did not"
"Glenmuir Glenmuir is a famous golf knitwear and clothing company founded in 1891 in Lanark, Scotland. For the past 25 years it has been the Preferred Supplier of shirts and knitwear to the European Ryder Cup Team. In 1891, local businessman Andrew MacDougall established a hosiery factory in the small village of Kirkfieldbank near Lanark, in the Clyde Valley. MacDougall’s first work force initially consisted of five women, all called Mary. MacDougall was the inventor of a new power-driven machine that greatly simplified the design and manufacture of fancy golf hose. Before the turn of the century the company moved"
"ground as well. The series of shoes includes identical properties as per their categories. It involves , Aviator, Brasil, Crane, Dominator, Ditmar, Destroyer, England, Encounter, Pro Encounter, Germany, Invader, Oslar, Oslar blade, Premier, Premier Carbonite, Premier Cleats, Spain, Tough, and Ultra. The size range starts from 1 to 13 and comfortably gets fitted to all players. Nivia Sports produces sports accessories such as kits or bags, tracksuits, shorts, lowers, shocks, and windcheaters for use in cricket, football, basketball, and volleyball. Nivia has sponsored all these products for national and international leagues and tournaments. Nivia has contributed sports equipment, footwear and"
"a 25-year service recognition from Sandy Jones, Chief Executive of the PGA of GB&I. Glenmuir is also a Corporate Partner of the PGAs of Europe and in 2011 was the Preferred Supplier to both teams in the Vivendi Seve Trophy. Glenmuir Glenmuir is a famous golf knitwear and clothing company founded in 1891 in Lanark, Scotland. For the past 25 years it has been the Preferred Supplier of shirts and knitwear to the European Ryder Cup Team. In 1891, local businessman Andrew MacDougall established a hosiery factory in the small village of Kirkfieldbank near Lanark, in the Clyde Valley. MacDougall’s"
"DJ mixers, turntables, MIDI controllers, DJ CD players, InMusic Brands inMusic is the parent company for a family of brands of varying audio products used in the DJ, music production, live sound, musical instrument, pro audio, and consumer electronics industries. Numark Industries is a manufacturer of audio equipment for disk jockeys, founded in 1971, and based in Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States. Numark was formerly owned by Jack O'Donnell. Numark acquired Alesis in 2001. In 2012, O' Donnell acquired the M-Audio and AIR Music Technology brands from Avid Technology for $17 million. From now on, all brands will be managed"
"InMusic Brands inMusic is the parent company for a family of brands of varying audio products used in the DJ, music production, live sound, musical instrument, pro audio, and consumer electronics industries. Numark Industries is a manufacturer of audio equipment for disk jockeys, founded in 1971, and based in Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States. Numark was formerly owned by Jack O'Donnell. Numark acquired Alesis in 2001. In 2012, O' Donnell acquired the M-Audio and AIR Music Technology brands from Avid Technology for $17 million. From now on, all brands will be managed under the holding company inMusic Brands. Numark makes"
"accessories including badminton rackets and shuttlecocks, strings, skateboards, skating wheels, squash rackets, and swimming accessories like earplugs, fins, masks, and aqua boards. Nivia Sports has been the kit sponsor for many sports teams over the year including I-league teams, Mumbai FC and DSK Shivajians. Nivia Sports Nivia Sports is an Indian sports equipment manufacturer based in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, under the banner of FreeWill Sports Pvt Ltd. The firm makes athletic equipment such as footwear, apparel, and accessories for football, cricket, hockey, badminton, basketball, and tennis. It has partnered with many national sports events in India. FreeWill Sports Pvt Ltd"
"Winmau BDO 9-Dart Club The Winmau BDO 9-Dart Club was an initiative launched and partnered by the British Darts Organisation and long term sponsor Winmau in January 2013, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the British Darts Organisation, with membership restricted to darts players that achieve a nine-dart finish at BDO / WDF major and open events. Players that achieve this feat are presented with a unique set of laser-etched tungsten darts in a laser-etched aluminium presentation case as a permanent keepsake from Winmau. There is no specified limit as to how many times a player or team can be"
"to clubs/players distribution, which can be utilized as a fund raiser for soccer clubs. The brand is still being worn by top level athletes in various sports including, rugby league, AFL, Rugby Union, and Football professionals. Nomis is the official supplier and sponsor of numerous sport association teams, players and associations, including: Nomis Nomis is an Australian football shoe manufacturer founded by former Adidas senior vice president Simon Skirrow. It distributes its shoes in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Skirrow spent five years creating the boots, which are made from kangaroo leather. 'Nomis' is an"
"hand-held construction equipment worldwide. Products here include rammers, vibratory plates, hammers, cutting tools, internal & external vibrators and construction site equipment, as well as compact construction equipment such as compact excavators, wheel loaders, dumpers and Skid-steer loaders. All-wheel-drive wheel loaders, telescopic handlers and telescopic wheel loaders are sold under the Kramer brand. → Main article on Kramer ""(company)"" The Weidemann brand mainly produces machines such as articulated wheel loaders, telescopic wheel loaders and tele handlers for the agricultural sector. → Main article on Weidemann ""(company)"" Martin Lehner has been CEO of the company since September 2017. Neuson founder Hans Neunteufel"
"Audimas Audimas is the largest sportswear manufacturer and one of the market leaders in the development, design and manufacture of sports and active lifestyle apparel in the Baltic States. Joint-stock company ""Audimas"" was established in 1931 in Kaunas (Lithuania) and opened its own manufacturing facilities, producing sportswear. In 1991, after the re-establishment of Lithuania's independence, the company started its new period of business and development. In 1997, The first retail store, belonging to the company, was opened. The first seasonal collections with Audimas trademark were introduced to the market. Since 1999 the company has been cooperating with National Olympic Committee"
"Nivia Sports Nivia Sports is an Indian sports equipment manufacturer based in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, under the banner of FreeWill Sports Pvt Ltd. The firm makes athletic equipment such as footwear, apparel, and accessories for football, cricket, hockey, badminton, basketball, and tennis. It has partnered with many national sports events in India. FreeWill Sports Pvt Ltd was incorporated in 1934 in Sialkot by Nihal Chand Kharbanda. In 1962, Vijay Kharbanda joined his father in business and set up Nivia Sports. The 1947 partition of the country saw the company shift its base from Sialkot to Mumbai, and from Mumbai to"
"Wells, Craig Capurso, Rob Niter, Karina Baymiller and Calum von Moger. Cellucor Cellucor is a sports nutrition brand from the nutritional life sciences company Nutrabolt, which is headquartered in Bryan, Texas in the United States. Cellucor was brought to market in 2002. Cellucor’s main product line, the Cellular Chrome Series, includes various pre-, intra- and post workout supplements, including the brand’s pre-workout, C4 Extreme. Cellucor also offers products through its COR-Performance Series, which includes its whey protein product. During 2012, Cellucor announced that it would release a number of new supplements. These included a thermogenic, Super-HD, and a weight loss"
"technologies, including the brands NordicTrack, ProForm, Weider, Gold's Gym and FreeMotion Fitness. Their fitness technology brand, including WiFi-enabled fitness equipment and fitness wearables, is iFit. The company also has a running and trail shoe brand named Altra footwear. Under a license agreement with Gold's Gym, ICON Health & Fitness designs, manufactures, markets and sells a full line of fitness equipment under the Gold's Gym brand name. In 2016, Golf Digest named the Free Motion Fitness Dual Cable Cross as the best universal fitness equipment in their Editor's Choice award. ICON Health & Fitness was central to a United States Supreme"
"World Masters (darts) The Winmau World Masters is one of the longest running and most prestigious professional darts tournaments, which began in 1974 - even before the current World Professional Championship. The tournament has been sponsored by darts board manufacturer, Winmau for years. The World Masters is unusual in darts in that its sets are the best of 3 legs (first to 2) rather than the standard best of 5 legs (first to 3). It was previously the final leg of the BDO’s Grand Slam title of televised majors, along with the Topic International Darts League, the Bavaria World Darts"
"Ashworth (clothing) Ashworth is a golf-apparel company, maker of Ashworth, The Game, Kudzu and Callaway Golf Apparel. On October 14, 2008, Ashworth was acquired by TaylorMade-Adidas. The company was founded in 1987 by Gerald Montiel and John Ashworth as Charter Golf, Inc, from an office in the Los Angeles garment district. Ashworth was a golf enthusiast and Montiel ran a sporting goods store. Montiel hired Ashworth as a buyer for the golf department in 1985. They observed that golf fashions in the 1980s could use more style. After the sporting goods store went out of business, Ashworth started designing the"
"a product. Nike sold the company to investors Roustan, Inc. and Kohlberg & Co., on February 21, 2008 and the company was once again known as Bauer. On September 25, 2008, Bauer announced the purchase of rival Mission-Itech. Mission and Itech gear was rebranded as Bauer beginning in 2009. Timeline: Bauer Hockey Bauer Hockey (renamed Nike Bauer from 2005 to 2008) is one of the leading manufacturers of ice hockey equipment, fitness and recreational skates and apparel. Bauer produces helmets, gloves, sticks, skates, shin guards, pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, as well as goalie equipment. Bauer primarily developed and manufactured"
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"Valley-Dynamo Valley-Dynamo, Inc. (officially Valley-Dynamo Limited Partnership or VDLP for short) is a gaming and sporting goods manufacturing company. It has been the dominant manufacturer of coin-operated pool tables in North America for over 6 decades, and produces the US-ubiquitous Valley brand and decreasingly common Dynamo brand (once a competitor). The company also manufactures other market-leader brand names, including Tornado brand table football (foosball), Dynamo air hockey, and Champion indoor shuffleboard tables, as well as Sun Glo shuffleboard equipment, for both the home and coin-op markets. The company has distributors in some two dozen countries. Annual sales were up to"
"body. The British Canoe Union is in Bingham. The first 1978 BDO World Darts Championship was held in Nottingham, in February 1978, being largely the idea of Nick Hunter, a BBC sports producer, and the event first introduced Sid Waddell. Notts County F.C. is the world's oldest football league side. Sam Weller Widdowson brought in shin pads in 1874. The first referee's whistle was at Nottingham in 1872. Admiral Sportswear at Wigston in Leicestershire made the England football strip from 1974–82, when the company went bankrupt; in 1974 it was the first company to introduce replica kits. Umbro took over"
"Konami Corp. v. Roxor Games Inc. On May 9, 2005, video game developer Konami Corporation sued Roxor Games, developers of ""In the Groove"", a video game similar to Konami’s pioneering ""Dance Dance Revolution"". ""In the Groove"" could be purchased as a kit that needed to be plugged into a ""Dance Dance Revolution"" arcade machine in order to be used. The initial complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleged patent infringement, federal trademark infringement, false advertising and unfair competition, trade dress infringement, and federal and state trademark dilution. An amended complaint by Konami filed"
"Eglash for their work on using sports analytics to stimulate youth interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The entrepreneurial spirit was alive and well at the Startup Competition & Trade Show, with 24 companies aiming to disrupt the sports industry. In addition, 2017 marked the introduction of the Accelerator Competition presented by Reebok. The judges were so impressed with the participants that both Nix Biotech and Open Gym walked away with the top prize and the opportunity to grow their businesses with Reebok’s support. Additional events—a dedicated esports room that hosted a ProAm tournament, drone racing, and a chess"
"Sportsinline International made the decision to dissolve the company at the end of that year. Hol established his own brand in 2007, together with Henk Schra (then owner of Stouwdam skate shop), producing a CadoMotus-branded frame using the Dual Box technology - the patent for which he had licensed from Sportsinline's owners. Mogema Mogema is a registered brand trademark owned by Sportsinline International BV (Est. 1999), a Dutch company that specialized in the design and production of inline- and ice speedskating products. Sportsinline International was founded by the parent company of the Mogema group to design and produce speedskating products"
"Speed Rollerskating Championships to inline skates for the first time. The frame design underwent a number of evolutions and eventually became the Mogema Diamond Series frame that for years was the most-prevalent inline speedskating frame in the world. Mogema was a technological innovator in speedskating sports products - the most commercially successful being the Dual Box inline skating frames, a patented design developed by Diederik Hol while working at Mogema. Late in 2006, lead designer Diederik Hol left Mogema to start his own skating company CadoMotus. Although some inaccurate reports indicated Mogema itself was changing its name, the owners of"
"Bauer Hockey Bauer Hockey (renamed Nike Bauer from 2005 to 2008) is one of the leading manufacturers of ice hockey equipment, fitness and recreational skates and apparel. Bauer produces helmets, gloves, sticks, skates, shin guards, pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, as well as goalie equipment. Bauer primarily developed and manufactured hockey skates prior to 1990, when it acquired the hockey assets of Cooper Canada Ltd. Bauer operates as a unit of Peak Achievement Athletics Inc. of Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1927, the Bauer family, owners of Western Shoe Company, established the Bauer Skate company as it is known today in"
"production in China when surface delivery is added. As the UK economy rebalances, suppliers like Tredair can now compete on minimum order quantity with footwear produced in China, while competing on price and minimum order with welted footwear produced in Europe. Tredair Tredair is a brand of British-made footwear produced by White & Co., a shoe design and procurement business in Northamptonshire. The family ran factories from 1890 to 2003 making classic men's footwear and variations, sports footwear, cricketing shoes, utility footwear to government specification during the 1940s, a military contract for the Australian Army, and safety footwear employing significant"
"Beitar Jerusalem also wore kits for several seasons in the mid to late 2000s. In 2016, Diadora signed contracts with FK Željezničar and Collingwood Magpies Netball. em janeuro de 2018 assinou com Vasco da Gama um dois clubes mais populares do Brasil. In 2008, Diadora SpA signed a joint venture with Win Hanverky Holdings Limited forming a new company called Winor International Company Limited that owns the trademark ""DIADORA"" in China, Hong Kong, and Macau and will manufacture, design, promote, distribute, and sell products bearing the ""DIADORA"" in those countries. In June 2009, Diadora reached an agreement with Italian shoe-making"
"and since 2012 also by number of stores. In October 2011 Dedeman became, for the first time, sponsor of the Romanian Olympic and Sporting Committee for two years. The partnership continued in 2015, under the brand ""Team Romania"", when Dedeman became Main Partner of the Romanian Olympic and Sporting Committee for a period of 5 years. In 2014 Dedeman signed a sponsorship with the Romanian tennis player Simona Halep. In 2015 Dedeman became the fourth bigger player in the Central and East Europe DIY market, with a markeet share of 1,9%, according to a study by PMR Research. Number of"
"Nomis Nomis is an Australian football shoe manufacturer founded by former Adidas senior vice president Simon Skirrow. It distributes its shoes in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Skirrow spent five years creating the boots, which are made from kangaroo leather. 'Nomis' is an anagram of 'Simon'. Nomis shoes are specifically developed for improved performance under wet conditions with the use of specially tanned leathers. But it was soon discovered that Skirrow never created any of the technologies and instead they were invented by people in the background. Nomis transitioned to the European market rather dismally"
"BDO World Trophy The Winmau BDO World Trophy is the new major darts tournament run by the British Darts Organisation, hosted originally in February at Event City in Manchester; since 2016 the tournament was held in May in various locations. The event is organized by BDO Events, the commercial arm of the British Darts Organisation. The first World Trophy was held in February 2014 at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. The Event marked the first BDO major event since the split in darts to not feature the BDO World Champion as Stephen Bunting joined the Professional Darts Corporation once he won"
"to miniature javelins. It was the practice of this skill that developed into a game of skill. Before the First World War, pubs in the United Kingdom had dartboards made from solid blocks of wood, usually elm. They had to be soaked overnight to heal the holes made by the darts, and it was a messy business for the publican, although darts was a popular game. This changed when a company called Nodor, whose primary business was making modelling clay (which has no odour, hence the name Nodor), started producing clay dartboards in 1923. The clay dartboards never caught on,"